The Model Report

Notes from the edge of the accelerator market and the labs racing to fill it.

by Bill Hodkiewicz

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Enterprise Adoption Is Slower and Stickier Than the Demos Suggest

Memory bandwidth has quietly become the constraint that dictates real-world throughput. You can stack more accelerators, but if the model cannot be fed fast enough, the extra comp…

Jul 1, 2026

How to Read an AI Earnings Call

The interesting tell in a model launch is what the provider chooses not to charge for. Free tiers, aggressive rate limits, and bundled inference are competitive weapons aimed at l…

Jun 29, 2026

The Case for and Against the Capex Supercycle

When a lab ships a new frontier model, the interesting question is rarely whether the benchmark went up. It is whether the price-performance curve shifted enough to unlock a categ…

May 7, 2026

The Second-Order Effects of Cheaper Tokens

Reading the Tea Leaves in Hyperscaler Capex

Apr 18, 2026

The Open-Weight Models Are Closing the Gap

What the Latest Model Release Actually Changes

Apr 2, 2026